Bus joint annual silver
Bus joints are made by solidly bolting the bus bars together with splice plates on each side. When bus plating is used, such as silver or tin, the temperature rise limit is drastically increased (See Table 1) and less total copper is needed to achieve the rated continuous current. The key is providing and maintaining low resistance conductive joints through silver plated deposits. All bus joint coctact areas are silver plated to assure proper conductivitv and to prevent electro-chemical degradation in normal service atnespheres. Proisions for thermal expansion, as dissimilar coefficients are an inberent part of the bus joint design.
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